Glimmer of a New Leviathan: Total War in the Realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz

Glimmer of a novel Leviathan: Total War in the Realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz, Campbell Craig (New York: Columbia University Pres 2003) 216 pp $3450 woven fabric

The central premise of Campbell Craig's work Glimmer of a New Leviathan is that the nuclear revolution devastated the theoretical foundation of American realism. Realism gripe [i]or[/i] grips that great-power war is an inevitable result of states seeking to survive in an anarchic world. on the contrary Craig asks, how can great-power war be inevitable if nuclear weapons have pay backed it unwinnable and almost certainly suicidal? Craig's work seeks to show how three planters of realism--Reinhold ...